On 2 August 2012 23:12, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
There's some #s at http://status.wikimedia.org/ but they don't go back in time too far.
That's great :-) Here's what I sent them. Seems Wikipedia is *rather important* to the BBC newsroom at the moment ...
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Date: 2 August 2012 23:23 Subject: Re: Query from the BBC Newsroom To: [snip]
Technical hiccups happen occasionally, unfortunately :-) Most pass momentarily, more noteworthy ones tend to get noted on the technical mailing list. I would guess you experienced the problem detailed here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-August/062111.html
There's a status page here: http://status.wikimedia.org/
Someone emailed our uptime over the last year to one of the lists recently, but I can't find it ...
We're not perfect - as a charity, we run on a shoestring - but we do our best and admit our hiccups and errors :-)
- d.
On 2 August 2012 22:37, [snip] wrote:
Dear Mr Gerard,
We noticed that Wikipedia was down for a short period of time this evening.
We wondered if there was a specific problem.
If you could either ring or email me that would be appreciated.
Regards,
[snip]
Tel No:[snip]
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